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Tong〔The approximate English pronunciation is .〕 is a Chinese surname. Tong as transcribed in English however represents of a number of different Chinese surnames. There were 8,589 Tongs in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 3,075th surname overall and the 121st surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders.〔US Census Bureau. 2000 US Census. Op. cit. Butler, Rhett. "(Most Common Last Names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. )" 2008. Accessed 16 Apr 2012.〕 Tong was also listed among the 200-most-common Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario. Tong may be the romanisation of the very common surname Zhang (張), as well as others such as Deng (鄧), Zhuang (莊), Teng (滕), and a number of Tongs (童, 同 and 佟). ==Origin of some common Tongs (張, 莊, 滕, 鄧)== Tong is a Gan romanization of the Chinese surnames Zhang (trad. , simp. ) and Zhuang (trad. , simp. ). Tong is also the Cantonese romanization of the surname Teng (滕), Deng (鄧). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tong (surname)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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